BLES, Herri met de
(b. ca. 1510, Bouvignes (Dinant), d. after 1550)

Fantastical Moonlit Landscape

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Oil on oak panel, 22 x 34 cm
Private collection

This panel depicts a fantastical moonlit landscape with St. Christopher carrying the Christ Child across a river. In the centre the painter has placed a large rock in silhouette, its opacity accentuated by the brightness of the landscape that shines through the peculiarly eroded tunnels at its base. It is a partly anthropomorphic formation, something that we see in varying forms throughout the artist's oeuvre.




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